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Patented March 22,1881.

NJETERS. PHOm-UYHOGRAPMER. WAsmNGmN, D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JARVIS O. BRUSH, OF NEWBURG, NEW YORK.

MUFF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,142, dated March 22, 1881.

Application filed January 25, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JARVIS G. BRUSH, of Newburg, in the county of. Orange and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Muffs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in a muff having its external covering composed of an endless or tubular felted fur fabric, whereby the longitudinal seam which is visible in a muff having its covering of fur pelt is dispensed with and the appearance of the muff enhanced.

The invention also consists in an external tubular covering for a muff open at the ends and composed of an endless felted fur fabric. In the accompanying drawings, Figure represents a perspective view of a muff embodyin g my invention, and Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of the external covering separate from the mud.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in both the figures.

In an ordinary fur mufi the external covering is composed of fur pelt, and has a longitudinal seam where the ends of the pelt are joined, and such seam is noticeable and detracts from the appearance of the muff. For this reason a person usually carries a muff with the seam next the body.

In the muff here shown the only peculiarity is in the external covering, A, and the lining and padding may be of usual materials and make. The external covering, A, is composed of an endless or tubular felted fur fabric, which is of cylindric form, open at the ends, 3 as shown in Fig. 2. The fur is felted into the fabric, and the fabric may be made by any of the well-known processes for producing similar felted fur fabrics.

A mud having a covering of this character 40 is advantageous, because it presents no longitudinal seam, and hence it makes no did'erence in what position the muff is carried. It can be made at much less cost than a muff having a covering of fur pelt, as the fur felted 4 5 into the fabric may be taken from small scraps of pelt, which would be of no use to the furrier in the making of ordinary fur muffs. Itscheapness is partly due to the fact that no seam has to be made in the covering, as well as because the fur from small scraps of pelt may be used.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A muff havingitsexternal covering composed of an endless felted fur fabric, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. An external covering for a muff made of tubular form, open at the ends, and composed of an endless felted fur fabric, substantially as specified.

JARVIS C. BRUSH.

Witnesses HI'RAM LOZIER, W. R. EDMOND. 

